This document is a summary of the final report of the external evaluation of 15 years of AFD and FFEM interventions related to “the development of rural territories or landscapes”3 in sub-Saharan Africa. This evaluation was commissioned by AFD and conducted between June 2016 and December 2017 by

AFD is regularly called upon to support urban development projects in areas recovering from crises, be they natural or political. Above and beyond the simple reconstruction of buildings, such requests bring us to question issues regarding the sustainable regeneration of social and economic dynamics

The Limpopo National Park (LNP) is one of the largest parks in Mozambique. It covers 11,230 km 2 (an area the size of Ile-de-France) and is part of a larger transfrontier park that encompasses the Kruger National Park (KNP) in South Africa and Gonarezhou Park in Zimbabwe. The LNP can generate

In 2012 the Evaluation Division of AFD’s Research Department decided to evaluate and follow up 20 years of AFD Group interventions in the pastoral water sector in Chad. This exercise, which covered 11 projects implemented in three areas of Chad between 1993 and 2013, was driven by the need for a

Since the Paris Declaration, the topic of “capacity development” has gained considerable momentum in the reflection on Official Development Assistance (ODA). The international community had previously relied on heterogeneous practices and had pursued sometimes contradictory objectives. It therefore

The concept of sustainable forest management emerged at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. It entails the conservation and enhancement, for the welfare of present and future generations, of the economic, social and ecological benefits of forests. In Congo Basin countries, This is being

Microcredit has rapidly expanded in recent years, providing access to financial services to a large population previously excluded from the financial system. However, whether it helps the poor has been a subject of intense debate for which, until very recently, there was no rigorous evidence. This

This study has been designed to be complementary to the work carried out by the IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) / J-PAL (The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) team. The IPA/J-PAL study, which began in 2006, capitalised on the start of Al Amana‘s activities in rural areas and aimed to

There are several approaches to fragile states. The first, based on the crisis cycle, distinguishes between deteriorating countries, countries in prolonged crisis, countries emerging from crisis, and countries showing gradual improvement. The second, advocated by the United Kingdom’s Department for